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I went to the RAF Merryfield article to try to add some references and found much of the text is very similar to this site. It was added to wp in 2007 ( diff) but I have no idea whether wp or the other site had the text first - should I add a copyvio label?— Rod talk 21:49, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi both. I've started a summary of one article at User:Ranger Steve/Sandbox3, to give a flavour of the issues. There are 62 articles in Airfields of the Ninth; I've randomly looked at a few and made some comments. I'm afraid that's all I've got time for today. I fear it may take some time to ascertain how deep this issue goes; it might be worth contacting the editor in question directly and seeing if he'll take on the work... Ranger Steve Talk 07:54, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
While waiting to take the Bar Examination, she was asked to fill in at a television station for an anchor who was on maternity leave. She enjoyed it so much that she decided to seek a future in Journalism, although she did later take and pass the bar....
Since the passage cites IMDB, I checked IMBD, where i find:
While waiting to take the Bar (to become a lawyer), she was asked to fill in at a television station for an anchor who was on maternity leave. She enjoyed it so much that she decided to seek a future in Journalism, although she did later take and pass the bar.
This was added in December 2011. I haven't checked the other sources for copying. That's about all I have time for right now. @ Wizardman:, I already pinged you on his talk page, but your thoughts here would be welcome. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:02, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
Thanks for notifying me. I just have a small concern. When I worked on updating the Awakening Records page with the dispute (putting what's on Sami Yusuf's page and adding the press release from Awakening Records, the change was reverted because (quoting the editor): "It is an internal dispute and it is self-sources".
In Sami Yusuf's page the whole paragraph depends on what he describes of the dispute, which is biased and it does not include reliable sources, so I think if I should not edit it myself (being affiliated with Awakening Records and fearing the conflict of interests) then at least the article should be edited still because if not then Wikipedia will be allowing to expose only the Information quoted from Sami Yusuf's point of view. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Salmats2al ( talk • contribs) 10:47, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
You mentioned that you were going to look at the {{ ConfirmationOTRS}} template, because it wasn't properly handling the gfdl only option. I now have a number in this category, but if you do open it up, I just tried "pd", "public domain" and "cc0" as parameters, all of which produce a CC3.0 message.
My example is Talk:Cinematic theatre.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 00:28, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
I'm faced with a copyright problem and I'm not sure how to proceed.
An editor added material to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which I had my doubts about in terms of content. When I checked the sources, I noticed that the wording was a mixture of close paraphrase and verbatim copying (see here). I removed the material and warned the editor; their responses made it clear that they were familiar with the idea of copyvios, but that they stood by their edit and mentioned their "legal rights as an author". Since then, they have inserted the same material into another article with only the most minor changes, retaining the structure of the original and some of the wording.
This isn't the first interactions I've had with the editor; none of them have been pleasant. I think I'm correct in my assessment of the copyright problems here, but I'm also aware that I'm not neither an expert nor am I unbiased. I'm not going to do any good talking to them. That opportunity has passed. I would appreciate your insight on the issue, and advice on how (or even whether) to proceed. Thanks. Guettarda ( talk) 04:34, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello and thank you for the feedback on CMLL Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles (2014) and CMLL 81st Anniversary Show articles. I took the structure etc. from previous articles CMLL Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles (2013) and CMLL 80th Anniversary Show, articles I originated as well. I will make sure to give proper link/credit when using structures etc. from a previous Wikipedia article. MPJ -US 02:07, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
Please keep an eye on this page => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja_Krishnachandra ; I am a DMOZ Meta. Please see the http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Raja_Krishnachandra&action=history and my brief in talk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Raja_Krishnachandra . I do not think there is any validity of their claim. May be that Editor is paid by some to promote. Obviously, a King will have lot of citations, references from books, scans, photos. There is something wrong. This can be legally important. They submitted a website at DMOZ too. No need to answer me, use your own logic. Have a nice day 115.253.32.174 ( talk) 17:34, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I am trying to create a page for Mesut Kurtis but it seems that this page was deleted and protected by administrators. Mesut Kurtis is a notable singer who has a wikipedia in Turkish: https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesut_Kurtis Thought of asking if you can help. Salmats2al ( talk) 11:29, 31 August 2014 (UTC) Salma
Thanks a lot for being a great help! I'll make sure to post it, but I may deactivate my account soon. The one more question that I can ask is how can I make a request for the page to be created like the code you previously taught me to add? I have plenty of sources that can prove he's a notable person and can provide it for the editor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Salmats2al ( talk • contribs) 13:40, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG. Thanks for your help with Roundel (fortification). So I think what you're saying is that the copyvio was my translating from German Wikipedia without attributing that on the talk page - that I understand!. Whereas CorenBot was suggesting I had copied it from some third party website, which I hadn't - it just happened to be a copy of the German Wiki article (and hopefully not vice versa). I always add an attribution when I translate articles from de.wiki. I just don't always do it immediately; in future I will aim to do it at the same time as translating the article. -- Bermicourt ( talk) 20:37, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
After I sent the note to the OTRS admin list it occurred to me that I wasn't sure that you were an OTRS admin, so might not see it. I meant to follow up directly, but did not.
On the one hand, I get that if someone provided text under a GFDL only license after 1 November 2008, then the right response (at that time) is that it is not an acceptable license and they need to provide an acceptable permission statement. However, many were accepted at the time.
It is not my goal to track these down and figure out what to do, in general. However, in some cases, the agent not only accepted the permission, but used an image permission tag. That is now generating an error, and I am trying to cure those errors. In many cases, I can simply switch to the right tag, but the text tag requires information about the source and the license. I am trying to determine what should be placed in the license parameter field.
I get that the right answer is that there is no valid choice.
However, unless we decide that the best thing to do is leave the incorrect tag in place (which seemed like a bad choice, but may be the best option), I need to figure out how to add a text permission tag.
I toyed with writing a custom message, with a discussion of the change in rules, and a link to the OTRS ticket, but nothing seemed satisfactory. If you think some sort of custom message would be a good idea, I'll take a stab at some wording. I don't see any great options, I'm trying to pick the best of the bad options.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 13:43, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Hey Moonriddengirl, I wonder if I could get some help with copyright issues in this article. I've already removed an instance of obvious copyvio, and I've also noted two sources that copy from us (a 2011 book and 2008 article). However, there are also a number of different sources dating to the 2006–2008 era that have overlapping content with this article, the bulk of which was written in that era, and I'm struggling to track down who had what first. Nikkimaria ( talk) 15:24, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
Can you kindly have these two badly licensed images — [8] and [9] — deleted ASAP? Because I have now uploaded better versions of them on commons with better licences. Kailash29792 ( talk) 07:57, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG, sorry to trouble you again, but having thought I had brought my attributions up to date after our recent discussion, I'm now being told by User:Chianti90 that we have to import the entire German Wiki edit history. I've never seen that before and never been advised to do that, but he is quoting WP:IMP. He's raised the issues on 5 articles, but see Wildsee (Seefeld) for an example. What's the correct procedure? And, if we have to import the de.wiki edit history every time, how do we do that? Bermicourt ( talk) 19:36, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2014 September 3
Dear Sir/madam,
FYI, please find below note sent on this dispute.
Fight for this page is sent to all India Against Corruption member to explain you nicely. The copy text is copy from the email date 6/April/2011 08:27 AM of Veersh bhai's intervue of Arvind Kejriwal on 5/April/2011 from jantar mantar Dehli. The email was originally also publish in members section of IAC website http://indiaagainstcorruption.org (WHOIS register to PCRF on 17/Nov/2010) on 6/April/2011. Most of Veershbhai email is published again in page 93 of Veershbhai's 2014 e-book "IAC Chronicles : An Ear to the ground".
"blog" link in copyright notice is for issueing the DMCA / OCCILLA notice to other OSP, it dos not have to be original link where it was first published, but only to contain enough of such content to identify the work being copied from. IAC related editor has already disclosed [89].
IAC person telling everything to these editor but they are keep deleting our helps. So if you not take action politely will send OCILLA / India CRA86 notice for takedown to OSP and also Mark Monitor. Since Veershbhai's idea/concept/intellecual property/artistic and creatiove rigts and all other IP is involved undr INDIA COPYRIGHT LAW also please note that just paraphrase the text will not resolve the issue.
You must note that since WIKIPEDEA has given wrong COPYRIGHT status as "Creative Commons" to Veershbhai's text, now WIKPEDIA / all involved editors must also ensure for immediate remove the copy content from "mirror sites" of Wikipedia, Facebook and many blogs which have copied / modify it under wrong perception of free from copyright status.
Moonriddengirl! Moonriddengirl! You know what!? When I joined Wikipedia on Christmas Eve, 2011 I was really apprehensive about my user page. I frequently modified it. I tried to copy the codes from the userpages of various users. But I didn't like any! Then, boom! I came across this masterpiece. I just loved your userpage and copied it to modify my userpage. I even told you about it and you had said that it was okay! Since, then I have tried to use many features of your userpage and the subpages for mine. Your userpages and subpages became by model! :P :D Even today, after two and a half years, my userpage looks a lot like yours. The notices, the colours....blah blah blah! But now I am planning to take up the work to make Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces a GA so I have become a bit active compared to the last few months, I have not yet done much, but I will try to finish and nominate the article by the end of October 2014. I would also need your help for that...but now my concern is not that as that is for October. Now I want to revamp my user page (that doesn't mean that userpage is boring now...bot you know just for a change). Modify it and like you know you revamp a brand, I want to revamp my userpage and subpages. But that doesn't mean that I want to change my name. I had already done that it early 2012. Remember you had given me suggestions. But anyway I am really confused that how I should revamp my user page. I know it's a very silly reason to ask for help, and you have many important works to do. But I just want some suggestions or some very awesome userpages (like yours :D) to be used as models. It's a very petty reason to ask for help but could you help me!? Pleeeeeeeejjjjjjjj!!!!! Request.... -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 12:14, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi Ms. M. At some point I reduced the lyrics in this song article. They were later restored in full. I worry that it's too much taking. You can see that they're copyrighted in this children's book based on the song [10]. If you agree, could you maybe post something on its talk page about that, and also maybe insert a comment in the article (like "please do not restore entire lyrics, see talk page for why"?) The article has < 30 watchers, so I don't know how much those things would help, but they might. Sincerely, Novickas ( talk) 17:31, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I could use your help dealing with an issue which may need defusing. An editor with quite of few years of experience is copied material from another article without attribution. That issue I believe I've responded to. However while looking at the editor's talk page I see two other articles in SCV. The first of the two includes close paraphrasing of a site which itself is a copy of the 1911 EB.
I see {{ Cite EB1911}} and {{ EB1911}}. I am unclear on at least two points. First, I do not quite see the differences between the two. I think it may be as simple as the second one being a shorter version which then calls the first. My second question is whether this template should be used when the matched sources is not the Encyclopedia itself, but a site which copied from it, although perhpas that is always the case, as I assume the original encyclopedia is paper, and any online versions are someone's copy. I am also not sure whether this is the right template when it is paraphased, as opposed to copied.
Before I urge the editor to add the attribution, I want to make sure I have my ducks in a row, as the initial response to the review was a bit pointed. See here for the first article identified, and here for the present issue. I also see South Hsenwi which will probably also be an attribution within Wikipedia issue.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 13:33, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for cleaning up Aubert Y. Coran! — gdfusion ( talk| contrib) 15:49, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
When you removed the copyvio notice from DigitalEurope, your summary seemed to suggest it was just because I had already removed the copyvio material (which should always be the case on placing the tag if one follows directions). You should indicate that it has been verified and settled, so people like me don't revert you. Dicklyon ( talk) 01:44, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, it's a pity that Media of Germany got deleted. I don't know and don't see what the "copyright" issue was there, as it was largely a summary of other media-related articles on Germany. Is there a chance it can be restored and corrected? I'm worried no one else will take the effort to rehabilitate it otherwise. Thank you and all the best, Horst-schlaemma ( talk) 07:16, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
I know how much you love list questions :)
This article List of Cameroonian writers was clearly derived from this source.
(From Wikipedia:Suspected_copyright_violations/2014-09-03#2014-09-03_.28Suspected_copyright_violations.29)
While the list of names itself seems fine, I am mildly concerned about the descriptions. To pick on the second example if someone is a chemist and a novelist there are only so many ways to make that point and it may be unreasonable for us to insist that it be rewritten. On the other hand is there a "sweat of the brow" issue?
I am inclined to accept it as a false positive, but would like another opinion.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 15:42, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG-- this claims to have content reproduced from Nouvel Observateur. Can this be linked to? I have grave doubts. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 15:57, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
User:Crow has been helping out at SCV recently. Following the directions which say only clerks and admins should close items, Crow has been reviewing and letting others close. How wonderful when people actually followed the desired process! I just reviewed Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Clerks, which is understandably vague on how many cases should be done successfully before being named a clerk. I think Crow is ready, but want your input, and will understand if you think a few more days are warranted. -- S Philbrick (Talk) 16:55, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
Does a section that specifically lists a "publisher's summary", such as the one I deleted here, constitute a copyright violation that requires history deletion? It is a cited quote of sorts. Ladyof Shalott 00:43, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
This isn't applying to anything on Wikipedia at the moment that I'm dealing with. I'm just curious to know if the performance of a play in front of an audience counts as publication. The script exists as a typescript from which the players learn their lines, but it isn't released online or sold in book form. (This is in connection with a couple of little throw-away things of mine, designed for one performance only at the time, but which I might want to revive later. I am the author, but if a copy of the script turns up elsewhere can I claim copyright on it?) Non-urgent, as I say. Peridon ( talk) 13:36, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
WP:Articles for deletion/South Shore League (2nd nomination) states that there was a merge and delete after the first AfD, WP:Articles for deletion/South Shore League, which closed 23 November 2012. There is no record of a merge from "South Shore League" in the edit history for "Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association", link, but relevant content was added more than a year later, 25 October 2013. The edit history for "South Shore League", link, begins 27 October 2013.
The deletion logs, for both South Shore League and South shore league], show no previous deletion. So where is either the deletion log or the diffs for the article that was discussed at the first AfD? A related question is, has there been an improper merge and delete? Thanks, Unscintillating ( talk) 00:29, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
The current statement of DR policy at Wikipedia:Volunteer Response Team seems to be very different from the much more cautious and modest advice you have always given me about our limited role. I've made a comment on the talk page there. DGG ( talk ) 04:27, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
I don't know what user TheRedPenOfDoom is up to but he/she has recently been engaged in edit wars. You may be knowing that we had differences of opinions about Bade Achhe Lagte Hain. He/she had been deleting all sentences with the citation needed tag, and sometimes even referenced information saying that they are against Wiki's policies, even though they were not so. I didn't go for a 3O as we had discussed on our talk pages, and not the article talk page. And he/she had told me many things which really hurt me. I had gone to the administrator's helpdesk, but there all supported him/her. Just by saying that he is a good user and that we can learn a lot from him/her. But that really seemed biased. Since then I have tried to talk to him/her nicely, accept his/her views and even thank him/her for his/her edits. Once again we had a mild difference of opinion regarding the same page. But this time I accepted his/her views, added required references and created a synthesis. And this time I started the discussed on the article's talk page, though inspite of me notifying him/her, he/she never turned up there. And now as far as my perception is concerned I think the matter has been sorted out. I have added the required tags and references. But I would request you to go through the recent edits I made to Bade Achhe Lagte Hain, and see if I did something wrong.
And now I would come to the main point, I was just beating 'bout the bush. It seems that he/she got himself/herself involved in an edit war here and here and here. He/she was even nearly going to get engaged in an edit war on Bade Achhe Lagte Hain, not with me but with an IP address user ( here, here and here). I would just request you to go through these. It's not that I have a grudge against him/her. But I feel that he/she tries to impose his/her views on other instead of calmly discussing with others on the concerned article's talk page. I think that this demotivates other users (as it had demotivated me long back), who may have their own opinions. Well, that's what I feel. I would not like to generalise it. And if I do so that would be too wrong and unfair on my part. -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 07:11, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
I have a list of questions (:P) which I have listed here under:
No more! List over. :P :) ^_^ -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 08:04, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
It's really really confusing but all those edits under the name of Jagadhatri ( here) are actually mine! Even this edit's mine : here. I took that pic and I added it there in Nov'12. It's really scaring me and an afraid! Really really! -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 14:35, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
You see, all these - [16] and even this - [17] are mine...;( -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 14:59, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl (I have another message for you below) I just called up and checked that there my the username saved in the laptop at that holiday place is Tamravidhir, not Jagadhatri, that means that when I last visited that place, I had logged in Wikipedia as Tamravidhir. And that's what it should be as I have edits in the contribution history of Tamravidhir ( here) made on the same day and just after a few minutes. I mean that the first edit which is now in the contribution history of Jagadatri ( here) was made on 19 Nov'12 at 14:56 and the last on the same day at 15:34. While the contribution history of Tamravidhir shows that on the same day the first edit I made at 14:51 and the last on that day at 16:01. It's highly suspicious and highly confusing. I know that it's not possible to merge account in Wikipedia. But I request you to do the things I have listed down. I will be grateful to you for my entire Wiki life:
I want nothing else! Thank you so so much... -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 05:06, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
I had got you and was just going to reply...but there was an edit concflict...The pages are as follows:
I can find only these...I am not sure if there are any more. -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 12:20, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
For your convenience I would like to inform you (I have another message for you above, God! How much do I bother you...) that this user users the Devanagari script for his username. If to write it in English/the Roman script then it will be - Sunil Malethia. So I want to report an issue regarding this user to you. I don't want to get engaged in an edit war, but this user (this user's userpage is blank but you can visit his talk page) is constantly de-italicising the television show names in Template:Star Plus Shows and Template:Life OK Programmes. However as per WP:ITAL we must "Use italics for the titles of works of literature and art, such as books, pamphlets, films (including short films), television series, named exhibitions, computer and video games (but not other software), music albums, and paintings". He is also removing the space between two consecutive names in the list, making the source cumbersome while editing. He is also classifying half of the show name as per format (such as reality) and half of them as per genre (such as drama). While I had classified them as soap opera, anthology series and reality show. I had the notified the user in his talk page and even started a discussion in the respective talk page ( here and here). The user is not responding but simply undoing my edits. I am refraining from using rollback, as I am afraid that it may lead to an edit war. But the user is too stubborn to discuss and simply reverting my edits. This was the last edit I made to Template:Life OK Programmes - here and this is his last edit (current revision) to the same template - here. This was my last edit to Template:Star Plus Shows - here and this is his (current revision) - here. Please I request you to look into the matter. Thank you... ^_^ -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 04:39, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Thank you so much Moonriddengirl! The issue has been resolved. Thank you so much! :D ^_^ -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 15:25, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl! A couple of questions on specific situations I've come across on SCV, if I may run them by you:
Your thoughts are most welcomed, and thanks! Crow Caw 15:47, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
Is it a copyright vio to move content from one article to another? Specifically, when an article gets too big, and subpages can be created, moving content from the old article to the new page is/is not a copy vio? SW3 5DL ( talk) 17:15, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
we are a group of students from Cornell University editing the page 'Economy of Asia' for a class assignment. We noticed that many information is out of date and we thought it would be helpful to add more recent changes in regional policies. We are eager to hear some feedbacks from you :) Yz567 ( talk) 01:40, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
I noticed that entire sections of Turkish cities are copyvio's. Please see my recent contributions of deletions I did. My edit-summary explains it all. I know that there's more. For example, at the Cuisine section at Malatya, much of the information appears to be copied and pasted from here. Another example is the Climate section of the Rize article which appears to be from this website. What's the best way to go about handling this? Étienne Dolet ( talk) 07:10, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
Re: User_talk:Piotrus#Inglehart.E2.80.93Welzel_Cultural_Map_2. Is it our fault, or was our text copied? It's not in the old version of their page at [18], through perhaps I was not looking in the right place? I'd appreciate an opinion so I know whether I have to just reference or totally rewrite the new stub I started (content picked up by bot was copied directly from World Values Survey). -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:14, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
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Zaayka-e-Hindustan |
Thanks a ton for helping me all these days and thank you so much for deleting all those pages...now I'm just waiting for Maxim's reply. Sending this yummy firni for you. Firni (for more info just click on this link) is a South Asian sweet...kind of a rice pudding...I hope you love it! :D (Note: Zaayka-e-Hindustan literally means the taste of Hindustan) ^_^ Tamravidhir ( talk) 15:36, 30 September 2014 (UTC) |
I still cannot figure out if I am way off, or right on. Will you please tell me what your opinion is regarding this example:
From my standpoint, the structure is unchanged, and the swapping of "We often" for "They usually" and "everyone at the office" for "XL's staff" fails as an attempt at fair paraphrasing. I think this is plagiarism, but what do you think? Rationalobserver ( talk) 18:16, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
I don't think they are different. It looks to me like two examples of close paraphrasing with in-text attribution. That example is a relatively recent innovation - it was added in this edit, along with some sweeping changes in the days that followed. Prior to that, there were only two: [19]. It seems to me that if nobody can identify how they differ, then that may be the heart of this problem. I am willing to ask people if they see the point in the third example. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:26, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi MG, I know there's a limit on quoting from books, but is there a limit on quoting newspapers? Specifically, using a person's quote from say the New York Times, and then later, quoting someone else from the same article? SW3 5DL ( talk) 23:21, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl! I'm going to take a Wikibreak from 4 Sep'14 to 10 Sep'14. But I am really sceptical about vandalism in certain articles which are in my watchlist. If you have no problem then, could you please please add the following articles in your watchlist? The articles are:
Please, could you add these to your watchlist? -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 17:34, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
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For this help with close paraphrasing. Kingsindian ♝ ♚ 13:19, 3 October 2014 (UTC) |
I was looking through some old pages and found one that I made some edits on that had been deleted. The article was: Los Angeles Mounted Rifles. I'm not asking that it be undeleted, but I am curious about reading any archives that give specifics about why it was deleted. Any help would be appreciated. Sf46 ( talk) 19:57, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG, given recent discussions, I'd like to re-run your old " Let's get serious about plagiarism" dispatch from 2009. Would you have any objections? If needed, I'd love for you to make any pertinent updates or changes. Best, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 17:38, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
I would prefer the former, but I always thought by clicking that save edit button I was agreeing to "irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL". I recently saw this multi-license template and became confused, especially since PD isn't a license and is incompatible with CC BY-SA 3.0. As an aside, am I to understand that since that notice appears on all edits that all edits to talk pages and userpages are released under CC BY-SA 3.0? Apologies for burdening you with these questions, and thank you for any response. AioftheStorm ( talk) 03:22, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG, I wonder if you could look at something for me please. It relates to some close paraphrasing on the list List of ant subfamilies. uestions have been raised at the FLC by one other editor and myself (in my capacity as FLC delegate). The information - and close paraphrasing - comes from:
Could you advise as to whether you think that this close phrasing fits within our remit, as I am a little uncomfortble with it as it stands. Many thanks - SchroCat ( talk) 07:44, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
Thanks MRG, I'll highlight the need for the link directly to the licence, as that is certainly needed here. Slightly surprisingly the criteria do not have a stricter stance on paraphrasing, although I wish they did: I am not entirely comfortable in signing off something as featured when it is 95% taken from another source, and as closely paraphrased as it is here. Cheers - SchroCat ( talk) 13:53, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
![]() | On 7 October 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article KMG Ethiopia, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the founder and executive director of KMG Ethiopia is credited with almost single-handedly eradicating the practice of female genital mutilation in Ethiopia? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/KMG Ethiopia. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
— HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:04, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
that [20] is copyvio from [21] (that is, that the source is copyright. It's clearly copied). He's ignored warnings or claimed fair use, and I've created a CCI. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 12:47, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
I'm sure no one noticed [22]. NE Ent 02:34, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
Sister OR Fellow Wikipedian OR Moonriddengirl (whichever you like)
I want you to resume
User:Moonriddengirl/Coaching whenever you'll get time, as one more user has asked me for it. I need to clean up and revise everything. I attended 3—6 th October's India Wikimedia Conference, I am adding an image so that you can see "exactly who" you are talking to --
Tito☸
Dutta
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Thanks for exuding a calm presence when things got heated at WP:PLAGIARISM. Thanks also for having the patience to hear me through even though I am obviously not very versed in Wikispeak or skilled at Wiki-diplomacy. I'm truly sorry I was rude and condescending. I hope I can learn more from you in the future! Rationalobserver ( talk) 17:11, 9 October 2014 (UTC) |
Can you check out the OTRS tag listed in this edit. It's related to the Víctor J. Montilla page and I don't think Adrignola is an OTRS member (but I'm not sure when that userright was established so I can't tell). Thanks. Protonk ( talk) 14:51, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
YGM on your mdennis account. - Sitush ( talk) 15:41, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
After repeated warnings Vinyl94 is engaging in copyright violation on the article Dudhsagar Falls. What to do next? Please help! Thank you! -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 10:34, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
I'm no userpage expert. :) But at a glance it looks fine to me. If you want feedback on that, though, you're better off looking for more visual people. I think I pointed you to the userpage design center before? -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:35, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG, just wondering if CC-BY 4.0 International is a compatible license for us? I checked WP:COMPLIC but it doesn't show there. Someone on the talk page there also inquired without answer. Thanks! Crow Caw 22:35, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
Greetings, MRG. I ran across the article L. D. Giddens and Son Jewelry Store, the entirety of which consists of a copy of the "Description" and "Significance" sections of the National Register of Historic Places nomination form for the building. Now, according to the form itself (section 11, near the end), those sections were prepared by "Barbara Hammond, Consultant, Goldsboro, for Archeology and Historic Preservation Section, Survey and Planning Branch" at the "Division of Archives and History" in the state capital. Now, I have no idea whether works written by North Carolina government employees in the course of their duties are public domain (as they are for federal employees), or whether Ms. Hammond (who may have been a "consultant" for the town or the state or who knows what) was even a government employee in the first place, or whether this would perhaps be a work-for-hire case, with the copyright—if there is one—being held by the State of North Carolina. I was all ready to tag the article for a G12 speedy, especially since it's deficient in many respects as an encyclopedia article; but having been overcome by doubt, I decided to ask you for an opinion on the copyright situation first. The article in its current form is probably a WP:TNT case, but I dont know whether it should be speedied, taken to CP, or taken to AfD. Deor ( talk) 00:49, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, Thank you for your message. I will try to come up with the text some other way. Gryffindor ( talk) 11:40, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. Regarding 5th Republic (TV series), is it possible to at least restore the cast list? I understand that you removed content because of copyright violations, but the previous version had the characters' names properly linked to real-life historical figures and the names (both actors and characters) were formatted in WP:NCKO. 203.215.116.202 ( talk) 11:48, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Talk:Michelle Rhee#Test erasures. Thanks.
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I have less patience than you I guess. Just too many major changes with misleading edit summary, so blocked as 'not here'. I've no objection to the editor being unblocked if they come up with a damn good explanation, but I doubt that they will. Dougweller ( talk) 16:54, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
Am I misremembering or didn't there used to be a bot running a few years ago that checked new text additions for copyright violations? -- NeilN talk to me 04:29, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
Hey Neil We are basically doing many of the things you mention.
Good evening Moonriddengirl,
Would you be able to help me out with revising an entry you flagged about a year ago, for Victor M. Richel at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Victor_M._Richel?
I saw that some comments were exchanged between you and the original writer of the article, Samej82. At the end, your comment to Samej82 was "Thank you for correcting the issues." But the article is still flagged for inappropriate content.
I would like to help clean up Mr. Richel's entry so that it no longer shows up as flagged. To my knowledge, it is no longer an orphan - as the Union County College entry now links here. It seems like there are several citations in place, so I'm not sure what else would need to be cited. And based on your conversation with Samej82, it seems like the issue with tone was corrected.
Can you please help me determine what else on his page should be revised or fixed? Thank you in advance!
Sincerely,
Erik Slagle — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erikrslagle ( talk • contribs) 00:24, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
Category:Mad Heads albums, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 04:39, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
I found and listed one at Talk:Stanisław_Lem#Backwards_copyvio. I forget what template is applicable here, but I am sure you or one of your friendly talk page stalkers can add it to our article? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:29, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG! Here's one that's popped up a couple of times, and so far they've been CSD'd, but in case one is not I'm wondering how to handle the attribution required:
So there's a couple of possibilities: the user could have grabbed the WP mirror and pasted it into the new Draft, or they could have saved a copy from when it was at AfD and have pasted that text back in. In either case, the text in question was contributed to by many people, but in its current state there is no attribution history. What do you do? What DO you do? :-) Crow Caw 21:07, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl:
Thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia. Have a fun
Halloween!
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SW3 5DL (
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16:39, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
What's our policy on linking (in "External links") to material that is in the public domain in some places (Canada, for instance) but is protected by copyright in the U.S.? Deor ( talk) 11:08, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
DocOfSoc ( talk · contribs) reminds me of ItsLassieTime ( talk · contribs) - remember how that user created dozens of personas, many with tragic, sympathy-inspiring back stories? And a penchant for mass copy and paste writing? I don't want to trash someone if I'm wrong, but the tone really strikes me as eerily familiar, see my further comments and links at the CCI. Montanabw (talk) 07:58, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl,
I have a enquiry regarding copyrights, which I would like to ask you as I believe you're the person with excellent copyright knowledge. A few song title articles connected to WikiProject Eurovision have recently had word-for-word copy of song lyrics added to them (see this example). Upon reading WP:NOTLYRICS I am under the impression that lyrics are copyright protected and should not be added to an article, is this correct? Also some articles have had a description of music videos and/or information on the upload of a music video along with its running time, with citation to the artists's YouTube video, those videos either published via the European Broadcasting Union's page, or via Vevo. Again would this be violating copyrights? Thank you in advance. Wes Mouse | chat 17:07, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
Greetings, Even though I'm somewhat new to Wikipedia I have updated about a dozen biography articles. Tonight I saw the notice at Talk:Philip_B._Gordon page.
I did copy & paste all of previous Revision history into a file on my computer. Question: would it be OK if I attempt, first to restucture entire article into a better biography format?
After that, I could attempt to summarize the content text. Not sure what text may be copyright, so a shorter article may be OK.
Final questions - I did see the notice about creating a temporary sub-page to place the article rewrite. Is that what I should do? Or post a first draft here? Or on the article's talk page? Whatever you could recommend would be better than me guessing. Thanks.
Regards, JoeHebda ( talk) 02:30, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG, what do you make of This Mirror/Fork site. They say they contain exact copies of AfD-listed WP articles, and their license is PD. Are they allowed to downgrade the license, even on deleted content. Which assumes also that only deleted content is there, which may not always be the case if an article is copied there and subsequently survives AfD. Crow Caw 22:08, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
Trying to explain our policies and guidelines to a new user here: User_talk:Montanabw#Ulysses_S._Grant_NHS and here: Talk:Ulysses_S._Grant_National_Historic_Site#Recent edits. Could use some help, they don't get it. Montanabw (talk) 02:24, 3 November 2014 (UTC) I was looking at the guidelines on plagiarism and came across this: Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Copying_material_from_free_sources, but I'm still not comfortable with the massive copy and paste this editor is trying to insert. I don't think a template at the bottom gives the whole piece a giant "King's X". (Though if it does, then bless it and say so publicly; you are the goddess of this stuff!) Montanabw (talk) 04:12, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Could you give me an urgent 3O? Tamravidhir ( talk!) 12:03, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
I Moonriddengirl, sorry to bother you again, but I wacked a paragraph from the article Project Rebirth because a Google search suggested it was lifted in its entirety from a facebook page. From a glance at the talk page I can see you've had a flyby on this article before over copyright concerns, and given what I found today I think it may be in Wikipedia's best interest to have you or someone else versed in copyright take another pass at the article to make sure its still all copyright free. Hopefully, I'm just being paranoid again, but it never hurts to get a second opinion. TomStar81 ( Talk) 23:12, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
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I realize that I probably don't say this enough here on Wikipedia, but thanks for the help on these tricky issues. If the copyright concern page was a little more user-friendly, I would probably pester them with my concerns instead of always coming to you for help. I know its gotta be hard work to handle this kind of stuff, but it is noticed and appreciated by all. TomStar81 ( Talk) 21:37, 4 November 2014 (UTC) |
Hi again Moonriddengirl :-) In our previous conversation, you mentioned there was no link from the Union County College page to the page for Victor M. Richel, but I've confirmed that link is in fact there. Would you mind looking into this and seeing if the "orphan" status of Mr. Richel's can be cleared? Thank you! - Erik — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erikrslagle ( talk • contribs) 04:03, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
A debate has broken out concerning a note that you left at a user's talk page concerning the way articles should be merged. There seems to be two camps of thought as to the interpretation of your note. It might be helpful to the discussion if you could have a look at the debate so far and settle the matter with what you intended. The debate can be found here. Thanking you in advance for your assistance. – LiveRail < Talk > 12:24, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG, what is the copyright situation of this scenario: Page is created as copyvio of internet source, G12'ed. Author re-creates same page, and when CSB tags it, responds by deleting the internet source page? They're obviously related to the subject because of this, and probably should take another approach (WP:DCM) but in this particular case is it still a G12? Thanks! Crow Caw 17:14, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
In light of this post from you I think you should read Wikipedia_talk:Canadian_Wikipedians'_notice_board#Indo-Canadian_versus_South_Asian_Canadian_versus_East_Indian_Canadian. There are still references being made to personal expertise/standing. WhisperToMe ( talk) 17:08, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
Good morning! I'm not sure where to ask this but I hope you can provide some insight. I know you work pretty actively in copyright enforcement here. This IP edit introduced two paragraphs worth of text into an article directly from an FBI press release ( here) which is in the public domain via the Department of Justice copyright notice ( here). The text is inadequately sourced but I can fix that. My question is whether we normally allow such bulk copying from a source at all, even if it is in the public domain? Thanks for your input. Ivanvector ( talk) 15:13, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
Guess who's back again. Feel like blocking a couple socks? He turned up today at User:Roman914 where he's already dared us to block him. He also outed himself as using a second account rather quietly on a couple Malaysian articles until an edit war in the last 48 hours or so: User:NasiKK. He's going to keep coming back, no matter what we do, I suppose; at least Mkativerata has an eye on NasiKK. But I'm hoping you can nip this one in the bud. -- Drmargi ( talk) 01:17, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Please forgive us for not knowing the full ettiquette of Wikipedia. The page that was deleted on 24th May about the Doreen Valiente Foundation is listed as being an infringement of copyright. For what we've read it appears to be an infringement of our (The Doreen Valiente Foundation's) copyright. We have issued all the information on our website (www.doreenvaliente.org or www.doreenvaliente.com) as being under a creative commons licence and we are perfectly happy indeed for the page to utilise anything from our own website. Alternatively we'd be happy to write an article briefly describing the Foundation and it's status as custodians of Doreen's legacy. Please let us know what we need to do to get an entry about us published.
Regards
Ashley Mortimer Trustee, Doreen Valiente FOundation 82.27.245.251 ( talk) 11:30, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello - thanks for re-instating the redirect . . . since the page about the Foundation is written by the Foundation itself then the redirect probably makes the most sense in light of what you've said above . . . the creative commons licence for the website is here: http://www.doreenvaliente.org/doreen-valiente-creative_commons-28.php and this would allow someone to re-write or edit the main wikipedia page about Doreen using material from the Foundation's website. Thanks again and best regards Ashley 82.27.245.251 ( talk) 08:42, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
Respected Madam,
I am sorry for my "explosions" yesterday. Regards. --
Tito☸
Dutta
16:02, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
I see that you happened to have edited a page for copyright that I am now certain may be caught up in wider copyright scheme perpetrated by a sockpuppets. You can get caught up at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/EtonHouse International Education Group and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Etonhousesingapore, then let me know what you think about this. TomStar81 ( Talk) 15:13, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Skookum renamed "Sikhism in Greater Vancouver" to "Sikhism in the Lower Mainland" even though the sources I used explicitly say "Sikhism in Vancouver" as the focus. It may be true that Sikhism is important to other areas in the Lower Mainland, but shouldn't the article scope be primarily decided by the focus of the sources themselves? I would be on-board if the sources used the entire Lower Mainland as a scope and/or if some published source explicitly said "You can't limit it to Vancouver, please use Lower Mainland as a scope" - If such sources were provided I would be more in favor of such a thing.
He is exhibiting a belief that limiting an article to a metropolitan area is "artificial" - I don't think I can get any results by speaking to the user directly. Maybe it could help to get a third opinion.
Last revision before article move WhisperToMe ( talk) 05:39, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
I'll see if I can find secondary source information about Sikhism in Abbotsford and Victoria - these are two major cities in the "Lower Mainland" that are not a part of Greater Vancouver and/or perhaps a source titled "Sikhism in the Lower Mainland" where that is the focus. If I fail to find these, WP:RM/CM may be the best avenue. Thank you so much for the advice :) WhisperToMe ( talk) 13:39, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
This one should be easier, maybe one of the watchers can answer it? What do we do when there are conflicting licences on a page? Query Abstraction Layer (listed here) is substantially copied from this page, which carries both a Creative Commons 1.0 licence and a copyright notice. Who do we believe? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 15:38, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
Yeah, I always come to you with the nasties. Would a film like His Girl Friday (1940), which is PD, be free to upload if the play on which it is based is not PD? — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 02:44, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
You may have noticed an intent to massmail AfC volunteers to help them spot copyvio. I came across this guidance, but it needs updating. Among other things, it doesn't mention using the Wayback Machine or Google's search by customised time, both of which I often use to make sure that the version I found on the web is earlier than the version in the article (which I date by using Wikiblame). Dougweller ( talk) 16:34, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.
The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.
If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)
If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using {{db-g12|url=URL of source}}. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with {{subst:copyvio|url=URL of source}}.
Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors.
I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC).
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hello I was wondering if you could please provide me a copy of the deleted article "list of the most extreme episodes" i dont remember the exact artice name but it was something along those lines, i assure you i seek it solely for my own personal use, thank you Irishfrisian ( talk) 18:12, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hi there, I removed all of the copyright violation from 7digital. Please can you remove the comment from the talk page and the flags at the top of the page, as I think the article is free from such violations. Thanks Llamalady28 ( talk) 14:20, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
My son was murdered October 29. Google Shaun Diamond. I am decimated. Do whatever you have to do. I trust you completely and me not at all. Sorry for the issue. At this point I am jsut trying to survive. — DocOfSoc • Talk • 22:27, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
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I went to the RAF Merryfield article to try to add some references and found much of the text is very similar to this site. It was added to wp in 2007 ( diff) but I have no idea whether wp or the other site had the text first - should I add a copyvio label?— Rod talk 21:49, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi both. I've started a summary of one article at User:Ranger Steve/Sandbox3, to give a flavour of the issues. There are 62 articles in Airfields of the Ninth; I've randomly looked at a few and made some comments. I'm afraid that's all I've got time for today. I fear it may take some time to ascertain how deep this issue goes; it might be worth contacting the editor in question directly and seeing if he'll take on the work... Ranger Steve Talk 07:54, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
While waiting to take the Bar Examination, she was asked to fill in at a television station for an anchor who was on maternity leave. She enjoyed it so much that she decided to seek a future in Journalism, although she did later take and pass the bar....
Since the passage cites IMDB, I checked IMBD, where i find:
While waiting to take the Bar (to become a lawyer), she was asked to fill in at a television station for an anchor who was on maternity leave. She enjoyed it so much that she decided to seek a future in Journalism, although she did later take and pass the bar.
This was added in December 2011. I haven't checked the other sources for copying. That's about all I have time for right now. @ Wizardman:, I already pinged you on his talk page, but your thoughts here would be welcome. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:02, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
Thanks for notifying me. I just have a small concern. When I worked on updating the Awakening Records page with the dispute (putting what's on Sami Yusuf's page and adding the press release from Awakening Records, the change was reverted because (quoting the editor): "It is an internal dispute and it is self-sources".
In Sami Yusuf's page the whole paragraph depends on what he describes of the dispute, which is biased and it does not include reliable sources, so I think if I should not edit it myself (being affiliated with Awakening Records and fearing the conflict of interests) then at least the article should be edited still because if not then Wikipedia will be allowing to expose only the Information quoted from Sami Yusuf's point of view. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Salmats2al ( talk • contribs) 10:47, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
You mentioned that you were going to look at the {{ ConfirmationOTRS}} template, because it wasn't properly handling the gfdl only option. I now have a number in this category, but if you do open it up, I just tried "pd", "public domain" and "cc0" as parameters, all of which produce a CC3.0 message.
My example is Talk:Cinematic theatre.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 00:28, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
I'm faced with a copyright problem and I'm not sure how to proceed.
An editor added material to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which I had my doubts about in terms of content. When I checked the sources, I noticed that the wording was a mixture of close paraphrase and verbatim copying (see here). I removed the material and warned the editor; their responses made it clear that they were familiar with the idea of copyvios, but that they stood by their edit and mentioned their "legal rights as an author". Since then, they have inserted the same material into another article with only the most minor changes, retaining the structure of the original and some of the wording.
This isn't the first interactions I've had with the editor; none of them have been pleasant. I think I'm correct in my assessment of the copyright problems here, but I'm also aware that I'm not neither an expert nor am I unbiased. I'm not going to do any good talking to them. That opportunity has passed. I would appreciate your insight on the issue, and advice on how (or even whether) to proceed. Thanks. Guettarda ( talk) 04:34, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello and thank you for the feedback on CMLL Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles (2014) and CMLL 81st Anniversary Show articles. I took the structure etc. from previous articles CMLL Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles (2013) and CMLL 80th Anniversary Show, articles I originated as well. I will make sure to give proper link/credit when using structures etc. from a previous Wikipedia article. MPJ -US 02:07, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
Please keep an eye on this page => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja_Krishnachandra ; I am a DMOZ Meta. Please see the http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Raja_Krishnachandra&action=history and my brief in talk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Raja_Krishnachandra . I do not think there is any validity of their claim. May be that Editor is paid by some to promote. Obviously, a King will have lot of citations, references from books, scans, photos. There is something wrong. This can be legally important. They submitted a website at DMOZ too. No need to answer me, use your own logic. Have a nice day 115.253.32.174 ( talk) 17:34, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I am trying to create a page for Mesut Kurtis but it seems that this page was deleted and protected by administrators. Mesut Kurtis is a notable singer who has a wikipedia in Turkish: https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesut_Kurtis Thought of asking if you can help. Salmats2al ( talk) 11:29, 31 August 2014 (UTC) Salma
Thanks a lot for being a great help! I'll make sure to post it, but I may deactivate my account soon. The one more question that I can ask is how can I make a request for the page to be created like the code you previously taught me to add? I have plenty of sources that can prove he's a notable person and can provide it for the editor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Salmats2al ( talk • contribs) 13:40, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG. Thanks for your help with Roundel (fortification). So I think what you're saying is that the copyvio was my translating from German Wikipedia without attributing that on the talk page - that I understand!. Whereas CorenBot was suggesting I had copied it from some third party website, which I hadn't - it just happened to be a copy of the German Wiki article (and hopefully not vice versa). I always add an attribution when I translate articles from de.wiki. I just don't always do it immediately; in future I will aim to do it at the same time as translating the article. -- Bermicourt ( talk) 20:37, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
After I sent the note to the OTRS admin list it occurred to me that I wasn't sure that you were an OTRS admin, so might not see it. I meant to follow up directly, but did not.
On the one hand, I get that if someone provided text under a GFDL only license after 1 November 2008, then the right response (at that time) is that it is not an acceptable license and they need to provide an acceptable permission statement. However, many were accepted at the time.
It is not my goal to track these down and figure out what to do, in general. However, in some cases, the agent not only accepted the permission, but used an image permission tag. That is now generating an error, and I am trying to cure those errors. In many cases, I can simply switch to the right tag, but the text tag requires information about the source and the license. I am trying to determine what should be placed in the license parameter field.
I get that the right answer is that there is no valid choice.
However, unless we decide that the best thing to do is leave the incorrect tag in place (which seemed like a bad choice, but may be the best option), I need to figure out how to add a text permission tag.
I toyed with writing a custom message, with a discussion of the change in rules, and a link to the OTRS ticket, but nothing seemed satisfactory. If you think some sort of custom message would be a good idea, I'll take a stab at some wording. I don't see any great options, I'm trying to pick the best of the bad options.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 13:43, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Hey Moonriddengirl, I wonder if I could get some help with copyright issues in this article. I've already removed an instance of obvious copyvio, and I've also noted two sources that copy from us (a 2011 book and 2008 article). However, there are also a number of different sources dating to the 2006–2008 era that have overlapping content with this article, the bulk of which was written in that era, and I'm struggling to track down who had what first. Nikkimaria ( talk) 15:24, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
Can you kindly have these two badly licensed images — [8] and [9] — deleted ASAP? Because I have now uploaded better versions of them on commons with better licences. Kailash29792 ( talk) 07:57, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG, sorry to trouble you again, but having thought I had brought my attributions up to date after our recent discussion, I'm now being told by User:Chianti90 that we have to import the entire German Wiki edit history. I've never seen that before and never been advised to do that, but he is quoting WP:IMP. He's raised the issues on 5 articles, but see Wildsee (Seefeld) for an example. What's the correct procedure? And, if we have to import the de.wiki edit history every time, how do we do that? Bermicourt ( talk) 19:36, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2014 September 3
Dear Sir/madam,
FYI, please find below note sent on this dispute.
Fight for this page is sent to all India Against Corruption member to explain you nicely. The copy text is copy from the email date 6/April/2011 08:27 AM of Veersh bhai's intervue of Arvind Kejriwal on 5/April/2011 from jantar mantar Dehli. The email was originally also publish in members section of IAC website http://indiaagainstcorruption.org (WHOIS register to PCRF on 17/Nov/2010) on 6/April/2011. Most of Veershbhai email is published again in page 93 of Veershbhai's 2014 e-book "IAC Chronicles : An Ear to the ground".
"blog" link in copyright notice is for issueing the DMCA / OCCILLA notice to other OSP, it dos not have to be original link where it was first published, but only to contain enough of such content to identify the work being copied from. IAC related editor has already disclosed [89].
IAC person telling everything to these editor but they are keep deleting our helps. So if you not take action politely will send OCILLA / India CRA86 notice for takedown to OSP and also Mark Monitor. Since Veershbhai's idea/concept/intellecual property/artistic and creatiove rigts and all other IP is involved undr INDIA COPYRIGHT LAW also please note that just paraphrase the text will not resolve the issue.
You must note that since WIKIPEDEA has given wrong COPYRIGHT status as "Creative Commons" to Veershbhai's text, now WIKPEDIA / all involved editors must also ensure for immediate remove the copy content from "mirror sites" of Wikipedia, Facebook and many blogs which have copied / modify it under wrong perception of free from copyright status.
Moonriddengirl! Moonriddengirl! You know what!? When I joined Wikipedia on Christmas Eve, 2011 I was really apprehensive about my user page. I frequently modified it. I tried to copy the codes from the userpages of various users. But I didn't like any! Then, boom! I came across this masterpiece. I just loved your userpage and copied it to modify my userpage. I even told you about it and you had said that it was okay! Since, then I have tried to use many features of your userpage and the subpages for mine. Your userpages and subpages became by model! :P :D Even today, after two and a half years, my userpage looks a lot like yours. The notices, the colours....blah blah blah! But now I am planning to take up the work to make Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces a GA so I have become a bit active compared to the last few months, I have not yet done much, but I will try to finish and nominate the article by the end of October 2014. I would also need your help for that...but now my concern is not that as that is for October. Now I want to revamp my user page (that doesn't mean that userpage is boring now...bot you know just for a change). Modify it and like you know you revamp a brand, I want to revamp my userpage and subpages. But that doesn't mean that I want to change my name. I had already done that it early 2012. Remember you had given me suggestions. But anyway I am really confused that how I should revamp my user page. I know it's a very silly reason to ask for help, and you have many important works to do. But I just want some suggestions or some very awesome userpages (like yours :D) to be used as models. It's a very petty reason to ask for help but could you help me!? Pleeeeeeeejjjjjjjj!!!!! Request.... -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 12:14, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi Ms. M. At some point I reduced the lyrics in this song article. They were later restored in full. I worry that it's too much taking. You can see that they're copyrighted in this children's book based on the song [10]. If you agree, could you maybe post something on its talk page about that, and also maybe insert a comment in the article (like "please do not restore entire lyrics, see talk page for why"?) The article has < 30 watchers, so I don't know how much those things would help, but they might. Sincerely, Novickas ( talk) 17:31, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I could use your help dealing with an issue which may need defusing. An editor with quite of few years of experience is copied material from another article without attribution. That issue I believe I've responded to. However while looking at the editor's talk page I see two other articles in SCV. The first of the two includes close paraphrasing of a site which itself is a copy of the 1911 EB.
I see {{ Cite EB1911}} and {{ EB1911}}. I am unclear on at least two points. First, I do not quite see the differences between the two. I think it may be as simple as the second one being a shorter version which then calls the first. My second question is whether this template should be used when the matched sources is not the Encyclopedia itself, but a site which copied from it, although perhpas that is always the case, as I assume the original encyclopedia is paper, and any online versions are someone's copy. I am also not sure whether this is the right template when it is paraphased, as opposed to copied.
Before I urge the editor to add the attribution, I want to make sure I have my ducks in a row, as the initial response to the review was a bit pointed. See here for the first article identified, and here for the present issue. I also see South Hsenwi which will probably also be an attribution within Wikipedia issue.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 13:33, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for cleaning up Aubert Y. Coran! — gdfusion ( talk| contrib) 15:49, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
When you removed the copyvio notice from DigitalEurope, your summary seemed to suggest it was just because I had already removed the copyvio material (which should always be the case on placing the tag if one follows directions). You should indicate that it has been verified and settled, so people like me don't revert you. Dicklyon ( talk) 01:44, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, it's a pity that Media of Germany got deleted. I don't know and don't see what the "copyright" issue was there, as it was largely a summary of other media-related articles on Germany. Is there a chance it can be restored and corrected? I'm worried no one else will take the effort to rehabilitate it otherwise. Thank you and all the best, Horst-schlaemma ( talk) 07:16, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
I know how much you love list questions :)
This article List of Cameroonian writers was clearly derived from this source.
(From Wikipedia:Suspected_copyright_violations/2014-09-03#2014-09-03_.28Suspected_copyright_violations.29)
While the list of names itself seems fine, I am mildly concerned about the descriptions. To pick on the second example if someone is a chemist and a novelist there are only so many ways to make that point and it may be unreasonable for us to insist that it be rewritten. On the other hand is there a "sweat of the brow" issue?
I am inclined to accept it as a false positive, but would like another opinion.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 15:42, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG-- this claims to have content reproduced from Nouvel Observateur. Can this be linked to? I have grave doubts. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 15:57, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
User:Crow has been helping out at SCV recently. Following the directions which say only clerks and admins should close items, Crow has been reviewing and letting others close. How wonderful when people actually followed the desired process! I just reviewed Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Clerks, which is understandably vague on how many cases should be done successfully before being named a clerk. I think Crow is ready, but want your input, and will understand if you think a few more days are warranted. -- S Philbrick (Talk) 16:55, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
Does a section that specifically lists a "publisher's summary", such as the one I deleted here, constitute a copyright violation that requires history deletion? It is a cited quote of sorts. Ladyof Shalott 00:43, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
This isn't applying to anything on Wikipedia at the moment that I'm dealing with. I'm just curious to know if the performance of a play in front of an audience counts as publication. The script exists as a typescript from which the players learn their lines, but it isn't released online or sold in book form. (This is in connection with a couple of little throw-away things of mine, designed for one performance only at the time, but which I might want to revive later. I am the author, but if a copy of the script turns up elsewhere can I claim copyright on it?) Non-urgent, as I say. Peridon ( talk) 13:36, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
WP:Articles for deletion/South Shore League (2nd nomination) states that there was a merge and delete after the first AfD, WP:Articles for deletion/South Shore League, which closed 23 November 2012. There is no record of a merge from "South Shore League" in the edit history for "Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association", link, but relevant content was added more than a year later, 25 October 2013. The edit history for "South Shore League", link, begins 27 October 2013.
The deletion logs, for both South Shore League and South shore league], show no previous deletion. So where is either the deletion log or the diffs for the article that was discussed at the first AfD? A related question is, has there been an improper merge and delete? Thanks, Unscintillating ( talk) 00:29, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
The current statement of DR policy at Wikipedia:Volunteer Response Team seems to be very different from the much more cautious and modest advice you have always given me about our limited role. I've made a comment on the talk page there. DGG ( talk ) 04:27, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
I don't know what user TheRedPenOfDoom is up to but he/she has recently been engaged in edit wars. You may be knowing that we had differences of opinions about Bade Achhe Lagte Hain. He/she had been deleting all sentences with the citation needed tag, and sometimes even referenced information saying that they are against Wiki's policies, even though they were not so. I didn't go for a 3O as we had discussed on our talk pages, and not the article talk page. And he/she had told me many things which really hurt me. I had gone to the administrator's helpdesk, but there all supported him/her. Just by saying that he is a good user and that we can learn a lot from him/her. But that really seemed biased. Since then I have tried to talk to him/her nicely, accept his/her views and even thank him/her for his/her edits. Once again we had a mild difference of opinion regarding the same page. But this time I accepted his/her views, added required references and created a synthesis. And this time I started the discussed on the article's talk page, though inspite of me notifying him/her, he/she never turned up there. And now as far as my perception is concerned I think the matter has been sorted out. I have added the required tags and references. But I would request you to go through the recent edits I made to Bade Achhe Lagte Hain, and see if I did something wrong.
And now I would come to the main point, I was just beating 'bout the bush. It seems that he/she got himself/herself involved in an edit war here and here and here. He/she was even nearly going to get engaged in an edit war on Bade Achhe Lagte Hain, not with me but with an IP address user ( here, here and here). I would just request you to go through these. It's not that I have a grudge against him/her. But I feel that he/she tries to impose his/her views on other instead of calmly discussing with others on the concerned article's talk page. I think that this demotivates other users (as it had demotivated me long back), who may have their own opinions. Well, that's what I feel. I would not like to generalise it. And if I do so that would be too wrong and unfair on my part. -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 07:11, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
I have a list of questions (:P) which I have listed here under:
No more! List over. :P :) ^_^ -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 08:04, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
It's really really confusing but all those edits under the name of Jagadhatri ( here) are actually mine! Even this edit's mine : here. I took that pic and I added it there in Nov'12. It's really scaring me and an afraid! Really really! -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 14:35, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
You see, all these - [16] and even this - [17] are mine...;( -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 14:59, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
Moonriddengirl (I have another message for you below) I just called up and checked that there my the username saved in the laptop at that holiday place is Tamravidhir, not Jagadhatri, that means that when I last visited that place, I had logged in Wikipedia as Tamravidhir. And that's what it should be as I have edits in the contribution history of Tamravidhir ( here) made on the same day and just after a few minutes. I mean that the first edit which is now in the contribution history of Jagadatri ( here) was made on 19 Nov'12 at 14:56 and the last on the same day at 15:34. While the contribution history of Tamravidhir shows that on the same day the first edit I made at 14:51 and the last on that day at 16:01. It's highly suspicious and highly confusing. I know that it's not possible to merge account in Wikipedia. But I request you to do the things I have listed down. I will be grateful to you for my entire Wiki life:
I want nothing else! Thank you so so much... -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 05:06, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
I had got you and was just going to reply...but there was an edit concflict...The pages are as follows:
I can find only these...I am not sure if there are any more. -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 12:20, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
For your convenience I would like to inform you (I have another message for you above, God! How much do I bother you...) that this user users the Devanagari script for his username. If to write it in English/the Roman script then it will be - Sunil Malethia. So I want to report an issue regarding this user to you. I don't want to get engaged in an edit war, but this user (this user's userpage is blank but you can visit his talk page) is constantly de-italicising the television show names in Template:Star Plus Shows and Template:Life OK Programmes. However as per WP:ITAL we must "Use italics for the titles of works of literature and art, such as books, pamphlets, films (including short films), television series, named exhibitions, computer and video games (but not other software), music albums, and paintings". He is also removing the space between two consecutive names in the list, making the source cumbersome while editing. He is also classifying half of the show name as per format (such as reality) and half of them as per genre (such as drama). While I had classified them as soap opera, anthology series and reality show. I had the notified the user in his talk page and even started a discussion in the respective talk page ( here and here). The user is not responding but simply undoing my edits. I am refraining from using rollback, as I am afraid that it may lead to an edit war. But the user is too stubborn to discuss and simply reverting my edits. This was the last edit I made to Template:Life OK Programmes - here and this is his last edit (current revision) to the same template - here. This was my last edit to Template:Star Plus Shows - here and this is his (current revision) - here. Please I request you to look into the matter. Thank you... ^_^ -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 04:39, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Thank you so much Moonriddengirl! The issue has been resolved. Thank you so much! :D ^_^ -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 15:25, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl! A couple of questions on specific situations I've come across on SCV, if I may run them by you:
Your thoughts are most welcomed, and thanks! Crow Caw 15:47, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
Is it a copyright vio to move content from one article to another? Specifically, when an article gets too big, and subpages can be created, moving content from the old article to the new page is/is not a copy vio? SW3 5DL ( talk) 17:15, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
we are a group of students from Cornell University editing the page 'Economy of Asia' for a class assignment. We noticed that many information is out of date and we thought it would be helpful to add more recent changes in regional policies. We are eager to hear some feedbacks from you :) Yz567 ( talk) 01:40, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
I noticed that entire sections of Turkish cities are copyvio's. Please see my recent contributions of deletions I did. My edit-summary explains it all. I know that there's more. For example, at the Cuisine section at Malatya, much of the information appears to be copied and pasted from here. Another example is the Climate section of the Rize article which appears to be from this website. What's the best way to go about handling this? Étienne Dolet ( talk) 07:10, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
Re: User_talk:Piotrus#Inglehart.E2.80.93Welzel_Cultural_Map_2. Is it our fault, or was our text copied? It's not in the old version of their page at [18], through perhaps I was not looking in the right place? I'd appreciate an opinion so I know whether I have to just reference or totally rewrite the new stub I started (content picked up by bot was copied directly from World Values Survey). -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:14, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
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Zaayka-e-Hindustan |
Thanks a ton for helping me all these days and thank you so much for deleting all those pages...now I'm just waiting for Maxim's reply. Sending this yummy firni for you. Firni (for more info just click on this link) is a South Asian sweet...kind of a rice pudding...I hope you love it! :D (Note: Zaayka-e-Hindustan literally means the taste of Hindustan) ^_^ Tamravidhir ( talk) 15:36, 30 September 2014 (UTC) |
I still cannot figure out if I am way off, or right on. Will you please tell me what your opinion is regarding this example:
From my standpoint, the structure is unchanged, and the swapping of "We often" for "They usually" and "everyone at the office" for "XL's staff" fails as an attempt at fair paraphrasing. I think this is plagiarism, but what do you think? Rationalobserver ( talk) 18:16, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
I don't think they are different. It looks to me like two examples of close paraphrasing with in-text attribution. That example is a relatively recent innovation - it was added in this edit, along with some sweeping changes in the days that followed. Prior to that, there were only two: [19]. It seems to me that if nobody can identify how they differ, then that may be the heart of this problem. I am willing to ask people if they see the point in the third example. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:26, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi MG, I know there's a limit on quoting from books, but is there a limit on quoting newspapers? Specifically, using a person's quote from say the New York Times, and then later, quoting someone else from the same article? SW3 5DL ( talk) 23:21, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl! I'm going to take a Wikibreak from 4 Sep'14 to 10 Sep'14. But I am really sceptical about vandalism in certain articles which are in my watchlist. If you have no problem then, could you please please add the following articles in your watchlist? The articles are:
Please, could you add these to your watchlist? -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 17:34, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
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For this help with close paraphrasing. Kingsindian ♝ ♚ 13:19, 3 October 2014 (UTC) |
I was looking through some old pages and found one that I made some edits on that had been deleted. The article was: Los Angeles Mounted Rifles. I'm not asking that it be undeleted, but I am curious about reading any archives that give specifics about why it was deleted. Any help would be appreciated. Sf46 ( talk) 19:57, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG, given recent discussions, I'd like to re-run your old " Let's get serious about plagiarism" dispatch from 2009. Would you have any objections? If needed, I'd love for you to make any pertinent updates or changes. Best, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 17:38, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
I would prefer the former, but I always thought by clicking that save edit button I was agreeing to "irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL". I recently saw this multi-license template and became confused, especially since PD isn't a license and is incompatible with CC BY-SA 3.0. As an aside, am I to understand that since that notice appears on all edits that all edits to talk pages and userpages are released under CC BY-SA 3.0? Apologies for burdening you with these questions, and thank you for any response. AioftheStorm ( talk) 03:22, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG, I wonder if you could look at something for me please. It relates to some close paraphrasing on the list List of ant subfamilies. uestions have been raised at the FLC by one other editor and myself (in my capacity as FLC delegate). The information - and close paraphrasing - comes from:
Could you advise as to whether you think that this close phrasing fits within our remit, as I am a little uncomfortble with it as it stands. Many thanks - SchroCat ( talk) 07:44, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
Thanks MRG, I'll highlight the need for the link directly to the licence, as that is certainly needed here. Slightly surprisingly the criteria do not have a stricter stance on paraphrasing, although I wish they did: I am not entirely comfortable in signing off something as featured when it is 95% taken from another source, and as closely paraphrased as it is here. Cheers - SchroCat ( talk) 13:53, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
![]() | On 7 October 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article KMG Ethiopia, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the founder and executive director of KMG Ethiopia is credited with almost single-handedly eradicating the practice of female genital mutilation in Ethiopia? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/KMG Ethiopia. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
— HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:04, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
that [20] is copyvio from [21] (that is, that the source is copyright. It's clearly copied). He's ignored warnings or claimed fair use, and I've created a CCI. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 12:47, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
I'm sure no one noticed [22]. NE Ent 02:34, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
Sister OR Fellow Wikipedian OR Moonriddengirl (whichever you like)
I want you to resume
User:Moonriddengirl/Coaching whenever you'll get time, as one more user has asked me for it. I need to clean up and revise everything. I attended 3—6 th October's India Wikimedia Conference, I am adding an image so that you can see "exactly who" you are talking to --
Tito☸
Dutta
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Thanks for exuding a calm presence when things got heated at WP:PLAGIARISM. Thanks also for having the patience to hear me through even though I am obviously not very versed in Wikispeak or skilled at Wiki-diplomacy. I'm truly sorry I was rude and condescending. I hope I can learn more from you in the future! Rationalobserver ( talk) 17:11, 9 October 2014 (UTC) |
Can you check out the OTRS tag listed in this edit. It's related to the Víctor J. Montilla page and I don't think Adrignola is an OTRS member (but I'm not sure when that userright was established so I can't tell). Thanks. Protonk ( talk) 14:51, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
YGM on your mdennis account. - Sitush ( talk) 15:41, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
After repeated warnings Vinyl94 is engaging in copyright violation on the article Dudhsagar Falls. What to do next? Please help! Thank you! -- Tamravidhir ( talk) 10:34, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
I'm no userpage expert. :) But at a glance it looks fine to me. If you want feedback on that, though, you're better off looking for more visual people. I think I pointed you to the userpage design center before? -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:35, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG, just wondering if CC-BY 4.0 International is a compatible license for us? I checked WP:COMPLIC but it doesn't show there. Someone on the talk page there also inquired without answer. Thanks! Crow Caw 22:35, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
Greetings, MRG. I ran across the article L. D. Giddens and Son Jewelry Store, the entirety of which consists of a copy of the "Description" and "Significance" sections of the National Register of Historic Places nomination form for the building. Now, according to the form itself (section 11, near the end), those sections were prepared by "Barbara Hammond, Consultant, Goldsboro, for Archeology and Historic Preservation Section, Survey and Planning Branch" at the "Division of Archives and History" in the state capital. Now, I have no idea whether works written by North Carolina government employees in the course of their duties are public domain (as they are for federal employees), or whether Ms. Hammond (who may have been a "consultant" for the town or the state or who knows what) was even a government employee in the first place, or whether this would perhaps be a work-for-hire case, with the copyright—if there is one—being held by the State of North Carolina. I was all ready to tag the article for a G12 speedy, especially since it's deficient in many respects as an encyclopedia article; but having been overcome by doubt, I decided to ask you for an opinion on the copyright situation first. The article in its current form is probably a WP:TNT case, but I dont know whether it should be speedied, taken to CP, or taken to AfD. Deor ( talk) 00:49, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl, Thank you for your message. I will try to come up with the text some other way. Gryffindor ( talk) 11:40, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Moonriddengirl. Regarding 5th Republic (TV series), is it possible to at least restore the cast list? I understand that you removed content because of copyright violations, but the previous version had the characters' names properly linked to real-life historical figures and the names (both actors and characters) were formatted in WP:NCKO. 203.215.116.202 ( talk) 11:48, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Talk:Michelle Rhee#Test erasures. Thanks.
RightCowLeftCoast (
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16:17, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
I have less patience than you I guess. Just too many major changes with misleading edit summary, so blocked as 'not here'. I've no objection to the editor being unblocked if they come up with a damn good explanation, but I doubt that they will. Dougweller ( talk) 16:54, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
Am I misremembering or didn't there used to be a bot running a few years ago that checked new text additions for copyright violations? -- NeilN talk to me 04:29, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
Hey Neil We are basically doing many of the things you mention.
Good evening Moonriddengirl,
Would you be able to help me out with revising an entry you flagged about a year ago, for Victor M. Richel at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Victor_M._Richel?
I saw that some comments were exchanged between you and the original writer of the article, Samej82. At the end, your comment to Samej82 was "Thank you for correcting the issues." But the article is still flagged for inappropriate content.
I would like to help clean up Mr. Richel's entry so that it no longer shows up as flagged. To my knowledge, it is no longer an orphan - as the Union County College entry now links here. It seems like there are several citations in place, so I'm not sure what else would need to be cited. And based on your conversation with Samej82, it seems like the issue with tone was corrected.
Can you please help me determine what else on his page should be revised or fixed? Thank you in advance!
Sincerely,
Erik Slagle — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erikrslagle ( talk • contribs) 00:24, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
Category:Mad Heads albums, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 04:39, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
I found and listed one at Talk:Stanisław_Lem#Backwards_copyvio. I forget what template is applicable here, but I am sure you or one of your friendly talk page stalkers can add it to our article? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:29, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG! Here's one that's popped up a couple of times, and so far they've been CSD'd, but in case one is not I'm wondering how to handle the attribution required:
So there's a couple of possibilities: the user could have grabbed the WP mirror and pasted it into the new Draft, or they could have saved a copy from when it was at AfD and have pasted that text back in. In either case, the text in question was contributed to by many people, but in its current state there is no attribution history. What do you do? What DO you do? :-) Crow Caw 21:07, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl:
Thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia. Have a fun
Halloween!
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SW3 5DL (
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16:39, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
What's our policy on linking (in "External links") to material that is in the public domain in some places (Canada, for instance) but is protected by copyright in the U.S.? Deor ( talk) 11:08, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
DocOfSoc ( talk · contribs) reminds me of ItsLassieTime ( talk · contribs) - remember how that user created dozens of personas, many with tragic, sympathy-inspiring back stories? And a penchant for mass copy and paste writing? I don't want to trash someone if I'm wrong, but the tone really strikes me as eerily familiar, see my further comments and links at the CCI. Montanabw (talk) 07:58, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl,
I have a enquiry regarding copyrights, which I would like to ask you as I believe you're the person with excellent copyright knowledge. A few song title articles connected to WikiProject Eurovision have recently had word-for-word copy of song lyrics added to them (see this example). Upon reading WP:NOTLYRICS I am under the impression that lyrics are copyright protected and should not be added to an article, is this correct? Also some articles have had a description of music videos and/or information on the upload of a music video along with its running time, with citation to the artists's YouTube video, those videos either published via the European Broadcasting Union's page, or via Vevo. Again would this be violating copyrights? Thank you in advance. Wes Mouse | chat 17:07, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
Greetings, Even though I'm somewhat new to Wikipedia I have updated about a dozen biography articles. Tonight I saw the notice at Talk:Philip_B._Gordon page.
I did copy & paste all of previous Revision history into a file on my computer. Question: would it be OK if I attempt, first to restucture entire article into a better biography format?
After that, I could attempt to summarize the content text. Not sure what text may be copyright, so a shorter article may be OK.
Final questions - I did see the notice about creating a temporary sub-page to place the article rewrite. Is that what I should do? Or post a first draft here? Or on the article's talk page? Whatever you could recommend would be better than me guessing. Thanks.
Regards, JoeHebda ( talk) 02:30, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG, what do you make of This Mirror/Fork site. They say they contain exact copies of AfD-listed WP articles, and their license is PD. Are they allowed to downgrade the license, even on deleted content. Which assumes also that only deleted content is there, which may not always be the case if an article is copied there and subsequently survives AfD. Crow Caw 22:08, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
Trying to explain our policies and guidelines to a new user here: User_talk:Montanabw#Ulysses_S._Grant_NHS and here: Talk:Ulysses_S._Grant_National_Historic_Site#Recent edits. Could use some help, they don't get it. Montanabw (talk) 02:24, 3 November 2014 (UTC) I was looking at the guidelines on plagiarism and came across this: Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Copying_material_from_free_sources, but I'm still not comfortable with the massive copy and paste this editor is trying to insert. I don't think a template at the bottom gives the whole piece a giant "King's X". (Though if it does, then bless it and say so publicly; you are the goddess of this stuff!) Montanabw (talk) 04:12, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Could you give me an urgent 3O? Tamravidhir ( talk!) 12:03, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
I Moonriddengirl, sorry to bother you again, but I wacked a paragraph from the article Project Rebirth because a Google search suggested it was lifted in its entirety from a facebook page. From a glance at the talk page I can see you've had a flyby on this article before over copyright concerns, and given what I found today I think it may be in Wikipedia's best interest to have you or someone else versed in copyright take another pass at the article to make sure its still all copyright free. Hopefully, I'm just being paranoid again, but it never hurts to get a second opinion. TomStar81 ( Talk) 23:12, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
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I realize that I probably don't say this enough here on Wikipedia, but thanks for the help on these tricky issues. If the copyright concern page was a little more user-friendly, I would probably pester them with my concerns instead of always coming to you for help. I know its gotta be hard work to handle this kind of stuff, but it is noticed and appreciated by all. TomStar81 ( Talk) 21:37, 4 November 2014 (UTC) |
Hi again Moonriddengirl :-) In our previous conversation, you mentioned there was no link from the Union County College page to the page for Victor M. Richel, but I've confirmed that link is in fact there. Would you mind looking into this and seeing if the "orphan" status of Mr. Richel's can be cleared? Thank you! - Erik — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erikrslagle ( talk • contribs) 04:03, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
A debate has broken out concerning a note that you left at a user's talk page concerning the way articles should be merged. There seems to be two camps of thought as to the interpretation of your note. It might be helpful to the discussion if you could have a look at the debate so far and settle the matter with what you intended. The debate can be found here. Thanking you in advance for your assistance. – LiveRail < Talk > 12:24, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi MRG, what is the copyright situation of this scenario: Page is created as copyvio of internet source, G12'ed. Author re-creates same page, and when CSB tags it, responds by deleting the internet source page? They're obviously related to the subject because of this, and probably should take another approach (WP:DCM) but in this particular case is it still a G12? Thanks! Crow Caw 17:14, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
In light of this post from you I think you should read Wikipedia_talk:Canadian_Wikipedians'_notice_board#Indo-Canadian_versus_South_Asian_Canadian_versus_East_Indian_Canadian. There are still references being made to personal expertise/standing. WhisperToMe ( talk) 17:08, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
Good morning! I'm not sure where to ask this but I hope you can provide some insight. I know you work pretty actively in copyright enforcement here. This IP edit introduced two paragraphs worth of text into an article directly from an FBI press release ( here) which is in the public domain via the Department of Justice copyright notice ( here). The text is inadequately sourced but I can fix that. My question is whether we normally allow such bulk copying from a source at all, even if it is in the public domain? Thanks for your input. Ivanvector ( talk) 15:13, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
Guess who's back again. Feel like blocking a couple socks? He turned up today at User:Roman914 where he's already dared us to block him. He also outed himself as using a second account rather quietly on a couple Malaysian articles until an edit war in the last 48 hours or so: User:NasiKK. He's going to keep coming back, no matter what we do, I suppose; at least Mkativerata has an eye on NasiKK. But I'm hoping you can nip this one in the bud. -- Drmargi ( talk) 01:17, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Please forgive us for not knowing the full ettiquette of Wikipedia. The page that was deleted on 24th May about the Doreen Valiente Foundation is listed as being an infringement of copyright. For what we've read it appears to be an infringement of our (The Doreen Valiente Foundation's) copyright. We have issued all the information on our website (www.doreenvaliente.org or www.doreenvaliente.com) as being under a creative commons licence and we are perfectly happy indeed for the page to utilise anything from our own website. Alternatively we'd be happy to write an article briefly describing the Foundation and it's status as custodians of Doreen's legacy. Please let us know what we need to do to get an entry about us published.
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Ashley Mortimer Trustee, Doreen Valiente FOundation 82.27.245.251 ( talk) 11:30, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello - thanks for re-instating the redirect . . . since the page about the Foundation is written by the Foundation itself then the redirect probably makes the most sense in light of what you've said above . . . the creative commons licence for the website is here: http://www.doreenvaliente.org/doreen-valiente-creative_commons-28.php and this would allow someone to re-write or edit the main wikipedia page about Doreen using material from the Foundation's website. Thanks again and best regards Ashley 82.27.245.251 ( talk) 08:42, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
Respected Madam,
I am sorry for my "explosions" yesterday. Regards. --
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I see that you happened to have edited a page for copyright that I am now certain may be caught up in wider copyright scheme perpetrated by a sockpuppets. You can get caught up at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/EtonHouse International Education Group and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Etonhousesingapore, then let me know what you think about this. TomStar81 ( Talk) 15:13, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Skookum renamed "Sikhism in Greater Vancouver" to "Sikhism in the Lower Mainland" even though the sources I used explicitly say "Sikhism in Vancouver" as the focus. It may be true that Sikhism is important to other areas in the Lower Mainland, but shouldn't the article scope be primarily decided by the focus of the sources themselves? I would be on-board if the sources used the entire Lower Mainland as a scope and/or if some published source explicitly said "You can't limit it to Vancouver, please use Lower Mainland as a scope" - If such sources were provided I would be more in favor of such a thing.
He is exhibiting a belief that limiting an article to a metropolitan area is "artificial" - I don't think I can get any results by speaking to the user directly. Maybe it could help to get a third opinion.
Last revision before article move WhisperToMe ( talk) 05:39, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
I'll see if I can find secondary source information about Sikhism in Abbotsford and Victoria - these are two major cities in the "Lower Mainland" that are not a part of Greater Vancouver and/or perhaps a source titled "Sikhism in the Lower Mainland" where that is the focus. If I fail to find these, WP:RM/CM may be the best avenue. Thank you so much for the advice :) WhisperToMe ( talk) 13:39, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
This one should be easier, maybe one of the watchers can answer it? What do we do when there are conflicting licences on a page? Query Abstraction Layer (listed here) is substantially copied from this page, which carries both a Creative Commons 1.0 licence and a copyright notice. Who do we believe? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 15:38, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
Yeah, I always come to you with the nasties. Would a film like His Girl Friday (1940), which is PD, be free to upload if the play on which it is based is not PD? — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 02:44, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
You may have noticed an intent to massmail AfC volunteers to help them spot copyvio. I came across this guidance, but it needs updating. Among other things, it doesn't mention using the Wayback Machine or Google's search by customised time, both of which I often use to make sure that the version I found on the web is earlier than the version in the article (which I date by using Wikiblame). Dougweller ( talk) 16:34, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello Moonriddengirl. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.
The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.
If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)
If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using {{db-g12|url=URL of source}}. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with {{subst:copyvio|url=URL of source}}.
Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors.
I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC).
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hello I was wondering if you could please provide me a copy of the deleted article "list of the most extreme episodes" i dont remember the exact artice name but it was something along those lines, i assure you i seek it solely for my own personal use, thank you Irishfrisian ( talk) 18:12, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hi there, I removed all of the copyright violation from 7digital. Please can you remove the comment from the talk page and the flags at the top of the page, as I think the article is free from such violations. Thanks Llamalady28 ( talk) 14:20, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
My son was murdered October 29. Google Shaun Diamond. I am decimated. Do whatever you have to do. I trust you completely and me not at all. Sorry for the issue. At this point I am jsut trying to survive. — DocOfSoc • Talk • 22:27, 23 November 2014 (UTC)